2016 American Transplant Congress
Glycine Is Graft Protective and Improves Kidney Function After Liver Transplantation: Data from HEGPOL-Trial.
Introduction: In experimental liver transplantation (LTx), glycine, a non-essential amino acid, has been shown to prevent the activation of Kupffer cells and to reduce ischemia/reperfusion…2016 American Transplant Congress
Use of Autotransfusion During Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Does Not Increase Recurrence.
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
IntroductionAutotransfusion (AT) is rarely used in liver transplantation of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients due to the fear of disease transmission. Leukocyte depleting filters (LDF) can…2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Sick Patients with MELD Score ≥ 35.
Background: The liver transplant candidates with MELD score ≥ 35 were very sick and with high mortality without liver transplantation. All these patients are in…2016 American Transplant Congress
Renal Function Decline Is Higher in the First Year After Liver Transplantation: Final Results from the Italian Observational Study SURF.
SURF registry was designed to investigate the evolution of renal function in Italian adult liver transplant (LT) recipients by: exploring the prevalence of chronic kidney…2016 American Transplant Congress
Defining Frailty in Liver Transplant Recipients.
PURPOSETo define frailty in the liver transplant (OLT) population to optimize care and assist in predicting post OLT outcomes.METHODSAll adult primary OLT patients from 01/2010…2016 American Transplant Congress
Histone Deacetylase-2 Gene Deletion in Mice Mitigates Liver Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury.
Introduction: Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) causes significant morbidity in liver transplantation and other surgical scenarios. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of IRI is required…2016 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of and Risk Assessment for Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes Following Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review.
Purpose: Cardiovascular (CV) events remain a major source of morbidity and mortality following liver transplantation (LT). This review evaluates the incidence of and risk assessment…2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Liver Grafts from Donors with Very High Transaminases.
Department of Surgery, Transplant Division, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA.
Introduction: Traditionally, elevation of transaminases has been broadly used as markers of hepatic ischemic injury and crucial parameters for liver graft assessment. We wanted to…2016 American Transplant Congress
How Small Is Too Small: A Comparison of Access and Survival by Weight in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients.
Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Introduction: Orthotopic liver transplantation is a well-established treatment modality for a wide variety of pediatric illness. With its associated technical challenges, paucity of size-matched allografts,…2016 American Transplant Congress
Limited Hepatitis B Immune Globulin Following Liver Transplant for Hepatitis B.
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
IntroductionThe hypothesis of this study was that the long-term outcomes in liver transplant (LTx) patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) who were treated with nucleos(t)ide…
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